"i think this is so sad!!We are doing this in school and we did some research and it is just the most meanest things in the world that anyone could think about never mind doing it.i just feel so sad and hurt for the relitives of the people who were killed in that most horrible and cruel way!!!"

aoife
Ireland
May.14.2008
rates this page 4/5

"i don't it is nessisary to feel sorry for those who died but those left behind. we also need to feel sorry for those who hated and do hate becouse if we don't realize hatred couse this catastrophe we may have hate and start another geniside."

kylee
United States
Apr.29.2008
rates this page 3/5

"Disturbing. You'll certainly be thinking about the Polish Jews for a long time after your visit. We visited in March/April and it was very busy. Lots of teenagers, visibly upset. I did have concerns that their should be an age limit on visitations. Hard to hear your Guide at times, as they are all trying to compete for their groups attention. You could'nt leave Poland without a visit here. Don't try to visit Auschwitz and The Salt Mines in the one day, unless you are super fit!"

Ann & Paul
Ireland
Apr.03.2008
rates this page 3/5

"i thing that is totally un eproprate and they should ov handelded it alot beter"

sophie
New Zealand
Mar.26.2008
rates this page 3/5

"none of them deserved that."

1800green
United States
Mar.07.2008
rates this page 5/5

"i feel sorry for the jewish"

amy
United Kingdom
Mar.05.2008
rates this page 3/5

"what happened in world war 2 at Auschwitz nobody but hitler should be held accountable. Hitler brainwahsed Germany during a great depression, he lied, and broke promises. I would agree people are sick and violent and full of hate and should maybe burn in hell. But answer this would you do what had to be done to keep from being killed or keep from your family being killed? Hitler was sick in the head."

Seth
United States
Feb.28.2008
rates this page 3/5

"Dear Natalie. I'am Polish too and I must correct your review. Polish didn't build and killed jews in Auschwitz. Nazist do this AND YOU AND WHOLE WORLD SHOULD KNOW THAT!! "

Hose PL
Poland
Feb.14.2008
rates this page 5/5

"The 1st camp was interesting to read about the full history of Auschwitz, but Birkenhau was very eerie and humbling, to think that so many people met their fate at this place, just for being non desirable to the nazis was quite disturbing, we think it is an important part of our history that we must never let happen again and that future generations do remember what happened as it was an atrocity that cannot ever happen again "

Sarah & Kev
United Kingdom
Feb.08.2008
rates this page 4/5

"it is a shock to learn about what happened to the people in Auscwitz. I am polish and i feared that place before i went there. it is very sad to see why someone would do that to his own country. The experiments that they did on those poor kids hurts my heart and I would of changed it if I could of back then. "

Natalia
Poland
Feb.07.2008
rates this page 3/5

"I went and saw Auschwitz myself and it is very hard to understand. I am Polish and I saw the sad museum. "

Natalia
Canada
Feb.07.2008
rates this page 3/5

"Ich und Roland haben eine GÄNSEHAUT bekommen als wir durch das KZ gegangen sind.Da kann man nur die NAZIS verachten!!!!Wie gut das den ALTEN von damals nicht mehr gibt und die Völkerverständigung jetzt funktioniert!!"

Roland (DE) Aneta (PL)
Germany
Jan.29.2008
rates this page 3/5

"This is horrible would hate to be there"

Rhys
United Kingdom
Jan.28.2008
rates this page 3/5

"Jurij, about 6 million Jews were murdered in general by the Nazis. Only about 1.5 million were murdered at Auschwitz, the rest at other concentration camps, in the ghettos, etc."

Dagny
Poland
Jan.04.2008
rates this page 3/5

"I heard about 6 Milion jewish peeple, who are murdered in Poland. Now I sow the table with 1,5 Milions. What is wrong und what ist correct? I would like more Explanations, because in my country is now very dangerous speak about 1,5 Milions."

Jurij Below
Germany
Jan.03.2008
rates this page 2/5

"if i could pick any where in the world to go right now, it wouldnt be back to england to see my nan, it would be poland, to see this consintration camp. i think strongly for the world war 2, and i think it puts a disgrace to the world we have now."

Emma Postin
United States
Nov.24.2007
rates this page 4/5

"what happened then was awful; and to think that my nan had to watch all of this on the news is discraceful! The nazis were evil,reacits,unfair people who didn't take the jews feelings into consideration!! Would you ever be able to kill someone the way they did?"

Hannah
United Kingdom
Nov.19.2007
rates this page 3/5

"I think alot of people should read about what happened at that time, I think it was awful, and now we can't change it anymore..."

sunny
Albania
Oct.25.2007
rates this page 3/5

"THis was very helpful!!!"

Rhs
United States
Oct.17.2007
rates this page 5/5

"Life changing visit (Aushwitz)"

nigel blows
United Kingdom
Oct.05.2007
rates this page 5/5

"Visiting Auschwitz Poland is a shocking experience indeed. It's very different to read about it that to go there yourself and be forced to imagine the realities of it. Sadly history is being forgotten. Some people even mistakenly think that because Auschwitz is in Poland, that it was a Polish concentration camp - and not a German one (it is a German name because the Germans were occupying the polish town of Oswiecim at the time). I believe authorities at Auschwitz museum even asked UNESCO to make this clearer as they were concerned history was being obfuscated. Anyway Auschwitz is essential for anyone coming to Poland"

David
United Kingdom
Sep.27.2007
rates this page 5/5

"Auschwitz - I have been reading this subject since a teenager in Australia trying to understand how humanity can allow this to happen.Slowly, you begin to understand, then more information appears and you feel you know nothing.The visit to Auschwitz is very difficult to put into words except to say that I would recommend it to the whole world and that it is like no other experience you will ever have.The biggest history lesson available. I went with my wife and I took three 'readings" from books of survivors. I read them at the exact site where they occurred.Emotionally unbelieveable. Perhaps what I have learnt is that , from the victims point of view, all they really wanted was for the world to know and recognise their fate.It could be that an "Aussie" in the year 2007 going to pay his respects to these (millions of)victims is of some small value.It was value to me.Peter"

Peter Shelton
Australia
Aug.12.2007
rates this page 4/5

"Having read a fair bit as to what whent on in Auschwitz,i found it verry moving and sad that this could happen to mankind. But know matter what you read or learn can hit home like this visit did, it really gets your mind working overtime and thinking how could they be so inumaine and destoy whole familys. I do think it is a place that everyone should see given the opportunity, then it would indeed be a lesson for the future and finaly its as powerfull now as it was all those years ago,and hope for the future nothing like this happens again."

denis
United Kingdom
Aug.08.2007
rates this page 3/5

"Auschwitz is a place that everyone should see, to make sure that the atrocities that happened here never happen again. Anyone seeing the exhibits of thousands of shoes, taken from the passengers of cattle trucks, brought from all over Europe, to be emptied onto the railway side then "selected" for the gas chambers; the tons of hair shaved from the people that would soon burn in the crematoria; The piles of shaving brushes, once owned by men with wives and children, and the mountain of false arms and legs twisted and bent, taken from those unfortunates who were crippled by disease or accident. No one could not be moved by such sights or the thoughts that they bring to mind. The thought that if we forget what happened here then it may happen again is too chilling even to contemplate."

IAN BRIGGS
United Kingdom
Aug.04.2007
rates this page 4/5

"I AM WRITING TO YOU TO TELL YOU HOW INTERESTING YOUR REMANINGS OF THE GAS CHAMBERS ARE WE HAVE BEINBG STUDYIIN THIS TOPIC AT SCEWL AND I WOULD LIKE TRO VISTIT YOUR PLACE THANKYOU CHLOE FLEETWOOD HIGH SCEWL!!"

chloe
United Kingdom
Jun.19.2007
rates this page 5/5

"Having high expectations of something may be one of the biggest mistakes one can have. So naturally my expectations of a visit to another “dusty museum” weren’t high, having found museums rather dull during my formative years. However, the cracks began to show in my preconceptions as I noticed the train tracks leading to the camp, along which the victims were herded like the children to the Hamlin Mountain. Now, as inappropriate as it may sound, I had my personal CD player with me on the journey to the camp on which I had an album by a group called ‘New Found Glory’ which started with a song called ‘Your biggest mistake’ and it lead me to thinking that the place we were about to visit may be considered Western Europe’s biggest mistake. The most powerful nations in the world, famed for their championing of peace once resorted to murder, on one level or another to solve their ‘problems’."

alan
United Kingdom
Mar.16.2007
rates this page 3/5

"Looking round I was almost wondering if all those lovely BNP members types and neo-nazis were right, if the concentration camps were just propaganda. We walked between brick red buildings on lush green grass and gazed in wonder at the size of it all. Then we started viewing the exhibitions inside the huts. That’s when the guilt starts. You look at the pictures of starving children and your stomach rumbles, your legs ache from walking all day as the tour guide tells of a particular form of punishment that involves making prisoners stand all night and then go out to work the next day, the guilt doesn’t just creep up on you, it slams into you. I wonder if it was that way for people who found out about the concentration camps (after World War II )"

BEN
United Kingdom
Mar.16.2007
rates this page 3/5

"It was then that I thought more about the guilt of people who survived after the war had "ended", even people in Britain must have felt something - sure, they were on the ‘right’ side but British forces never ,never bombed the camps, they never dropped bombs on the railway lines that delivered the lambs to the slaughter. They were fighting for their lives and their freedom yet they couldn’t spare a few bombs to try and save the Jews. Then of course the question arises, should we feel guilty? It had nothing to do with the British people, or did it? After all we are all living on this world, we are all human beings, surely an act of inhumanity against one- group of people is an act against all of us. Then what about the German people, they can say they knew nothing but some if them must. They would have seen the starving prisoners walking to the factories to work; many of the German citizens would have been over-seers. So what’s their excuse ? Fear ? Perhaps fear can overcome guilt ? but then people can’t just operate on a basis of fear and guilt, there are some who act out of great selflessness for no reason except that it is the right thing to do. We were told of a catholic priest and a boy at Auschwitz, the boy had shared his piece of bread with an old man and had been caught, this being against the rules the boy was ordered to be killed, however the priest jumped up and pleaded to be killed instead. He was killed and the boy lived, and survived and died an old man. In the end Auschwitz was a moving experience, it allows me see not only what happened in a more visual way, it also allowed me to consider the guilt surrounding it all. I don’t think that guilt is a good thing, but surely if it helped anyone keep their humanity (the guilt made them act as a better human being) or if it helped people understand this horrific thing better, half a century on, then it can’t be all bad. Perhaps there is some hope for mankind then, and perhaps even for me. However no matter what the reason, be it guilt, fear, brotherhood or anything, lets try and remember one thing: never again. "

Laura
United Kingdom
Mar.16.2007
rates this page 3/5

"A very important site when you visit the camps is the Auschwitz Jewish Center which presents the history of the destroyed Jewish community of Oswiecim (Auschwitz) which until the Holocaust was a predominantly Jewish town. Their website is: www.ajcf.org"

David
United States
Mar.10.2007
rates this page 4/5